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[st_kelly]

Theory: School holidays entail no school work

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[st_polly]

Polly just happens to be taking a walk past the pond - she has not in any way shape or form been watching the security camera feeds - so she comes and perches on the edge of the pond by Kelly.

[st_kelly]

Kelly looks over at the approaching sound of footsteps, and grins.

"Hey, Pol. How's it going?"

[st_polly]

"Not bad," she says, grinning back. "You?"

[st_kelly]

"Tired," she tells her with a shrug. "The First Years have been tunnelling under the hockey pitches again. They've promised to backfill the tunnel before the hockey season starts, but you know them - they'll get distracted by some other shiny project and it'll be broken ankles all around. And then Cheltenham will kick our arses."

[fiery_ring]

A mint humbug drops down from a nearby tree.

[st_kelly]

It lands with a plop nearby, and Kelly looks at it, then looks up. Well, humbugs don't actually grow on trees, so she heads over to see who's up there.

[fiery_ring]

Carlotta, who has hidden her bag thirty five feet up, freezes when she sees someone down below.

[st_kelly]

Kelly looks up, and spies feet.

"Hullo," she calls up. "Are you stuck, or can you get down okay?"

[awonderfulqueen]

Camilla has been out for her afternoon constitutional, accompanied (naturally) by Mr Darcy -- and a nice cocktail.

"Busy day, my dear?"

[st_kelly]

"Very," she says, grinning at the strange headmistress. "How was your day, miss?"